![]() ![]() ![]() His seminal volume In a Lonely Place collects eight of his best tales, including "In the Pines," a classic ghost story evocatively set in the Tennessee woods, "Beyond Any Measure," an original take on the vampire story, "River of Night's Dreaming," a surreal and nightmarish masterpiece inspired by The King in Yellow, and the author's most famous tale, "Sticks," a disturbing story thought by many to have been the basis for The Blair Witch Project. One of the most important horror collections of modern times, back in print at last! Karl Edward Wagner (1945-1994) has earned a reputation as one of the finest horror writers of the modern era, but his work has been out of print and nearly unobtainable for many years. ![]()
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![]() ![]() I say a prayer, talk to God think of things I love: Birds and flowers and books dandelions, earthworms, mosses, all those things I never thought to love, or not enough. Like seedlings struggling towards the light, even though I need a baptism of magic waters to cure all that aches I don my gowns and masks and gloves Tend to the sick, the lost, the tired, the dead. I rise Like the sap in the maple tree knowing it's time to feed its budding branches. We received hundreds of responses, and NPR's resident poet Kwame Alexander took lines from submissions to create a community poem about the challenges of the past year and hope for times ahead.Įvery Morning I wake with wonder and dive into the day I grasp for my phone like a lifeline, a buoy, I rise among the displaced dreams of yore Supplanted plans, disrupted from the year So distanced from all social life before I set out on my way To make snacks for three kids because that's all I seem to do with them here all the damn day And it's hard work. As many begin to take steps to come out on the other side of the pandemic, Morning Edition asked NPR's audience to write a poem using Maya Angelou's poem "Still I Rise" as inspiration. ![]() Now, millions of Americans have been vaccinated, businesses are reopening and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention loosened guidance on mask-wearing for vaccinated people. ![]() The past year has been heavy and affected us in both small and big ways. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() “When you first start writing novels, especially now, how do you not see them cinematically? We grew up on movies. “I was also aware that there was a possibility that Sandra Bullock wouldn’t be playing Malorie,” Malerman pointed out. While Bird Box helped inspire Malerman to write Malorie, he admits that it didn’t impact his writing all that much. “Then it jumps a few years later, and it really takes off 10 years after that.” “Malorie opens at the school for the blind, which is where the movie ends,” the author admitted. While he couldn’t share much regarding what’s happening with the film side of things, he was able to reveal more about Malorie and how it expands upon the original story: “Sometimes it’s weird, all this secrecy, but I’m game.” “I can’t say much, but I can say that it is in development,” Malerman confirmed to Inverse. Josh Malerman was only able to confirm that the film was simply in development, as he explained to Inverse: Unfortunately, it’s unclear whether or not Netflix’s Bird Box sequel will follow the novel Malorie or take an entirely new approach. Now it seems Josh Malerman’s Malorie wasn’t the only sequel being developed, however, as he’s confirmed a sequel to the Netflix version of Bird Box is also in the works. It was so popular, in fact, that author Josh Malerman – who wrote the novel that Bird Box is based on – decided to write a sequel to the novel titled Malorie. The Netflix Original movie Bird Box turned out to be one of the most popular film releases in 2018. ![]() ![]() ![]() It is a place with a stratified population. The combination of storytelling on a mythic scale with the guile of the knowing look generates the energy required to drive this genius epic.Ĭarpentaria is set in the small town of Desperance. Whether it is the charismatic voice of her omniscient narrator or the everyday dialogue spoken by her characters, Wright recognises the strength of the oral tradition as a satirical and ironic tool. So if you want to know what Will Phantom looked like – he looked like that.’ Midnight’s reverent delivery has lacerating wit he plays his listener for the outsider he is, yet he does it with a tone of sincerity. This lad was writing memory with a firestick that made lightning look dull. He got on a tie, clean white shirt and a nice suit.’ His response is several pages long, a vivid, vernacular stream of detail about the essence of Will: his relationship with his father and his country, his difference to other men and women, his ability to control his own fate. He eyes the questioner and astutely spots him as a ‘Southern blackfella … a real smart one, educated, acting as a guide. ![]() There is a mesmerising scene in Carpentaria when Joseph Midnight is asked if he has seen the fugitive Will Phantom, a young local Aboriginal man who is single-handedly waging a guerrilla war against a large lead ore mining company. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The only things it has in common with ‘The Twelve Dancing Princesses’ is there being a lot of siblings, and the presence of an underworld, but neither of these aspects are used in remotely the same way. ![]() ![]() The ruling family is put to sleep, and the castle is overrun with roses, but life goes on around the sleepers, and they themselves are somewhat sidelined, so while I see the ‘Sleeping Beauty’ influences, it’s a bit of a stretch. I do have to say, I’m a little bit confused by this book being blurbed as a reworking of ‘Sleeping Beauty’ and ‘The Twelve Dancing Princesses’, as it seems to draw very minorly from the former, and not at all from the latter. It’s part mystery, part coming of age story, and part political fantasy, and it comes together into a compelling, clever read. Now she has to avoid being forced to marry the boorish other potential heir, try to solve the curse on her family, and keep Kylma Above from falling apart. She grew up in constant fear for her life, with her twelve siblings plotting to murder each other and shorten the path to the throne, but she never wanted to rule, and was looking forward to escaping to university to study medicine. When sixteen-year-old Ekata wakes up to find that her entire backstabbing royal family has been cursed into unconsciousness, she’s forced into the role of Grand Duke of Kylma Above, a tiny, icy duchy set above the magical underwater world of Kylma Below. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Take the original Fight Club‘s look at arrested twenty-something development, and consumer slavery, and move it to the burbs, you have this comic follow-up. One where domestic “bliss” hides deep urges, both in him and his wife. The series picks up with the rather boring, stereotypical life. Its been almost 20 years since Fight Club was released as a novel (which was followed by the movie three years later). I’m a huge fan of Fight Club, and thankfully novelist Chuck Palahniuk has returned to the world of Tyler Durden joined by artist Cameron Stewart, colorist by Dave Stewart, and covers by David Mack with Fight Club 2 from Dark Horse. But it won’t last long, the wife has seen to that. Ten years after starting Project Mayhem, Tyler Durden lives… a mundane life. It’s time to break the first two rules of FIGHT CLUB. People’s History of the Marvel Universe. ![]() ![]() ![]() her phone number sewn into the collars of their dresses for law enforcement to find. There are the two sisters, ages 5 and 7, who were trying to reach their mother in the U.S. There is the teen from Honduras who saw his friend get murdered by gang members, and knew he had to flee the country if he didn’t want the same fate. The stories are harrowing and heartbreaking. She uses the form’s questions as jumping off points to describe the bureaucratic nightmare the children face to get immigration status, and the horrific circumstances that forced them to leave countries in violent turmoil like El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras, and run a gauntlet of potential gang violence, rape and death through Mexico to get here. ![]() Luiselli worked as a federal court interpreter in New York City, helping children who came to the United States alone fill in an intake questionnaire. ![]() I was originally going to send this review next week, but this essay in book form is so informative, sobering and important that I wanted to tell you about it now while you still have time to pick it up and read it before the election. ![]() ![]() ![]() The joke is centered around the fact that Socrates hardly tried to defend himself at all, and instead mostly doubled down on what got him into trouble in the first place - claiming that the elder "wise" men of Athens didn't know anything worth knowing. You can read the full text here, and there is a free audio book version of it on librivox. His life and death inspired generations of philosophers in Athens to more deeply investigate the nature of reality, and to question all the traditions of the past. ![]() Socrates was killed for investigating the truth, and just as it was with Obi-wan, striking him down only made him more powerful. It is, essentially, the founding myth of all of Western philosophy in many ways. This comic is about Plato's Apology, where Socrates defended himself at his trial and is ultimately put to death for corrupting the youth and impiety to the Gods. ![]() ![]() Following their TV premieres, each episode will be available to US viewers on streaming service AMC+. The first episode of Interview with the Vampire will air on US cable channel AMC on 2 October at 10 pm ET/PT, with the remaining six episodes broadcasting weekly in the same time slot. Adapted from the first of Anne Rice’s classic gothic-horror novel series, The Vampire Chronicles, Interview with the Vampire is narrated by Louis de Pointe du Lac, as he retells the story of his 200 year life, including his vampiric conversion by, and subsequent romantic involvement with, the vampire Lestat de Lioncourt. ![]() ![]() If you have any interest in vampire literature, swoony actors such as Jacob Anderson and Sam Reid or just need some appropriate spooky season viewing for October, then you’ll want to know how to watch Interview with the Vampire when it debuts. ![]() ![]() ![]() She has to fake breathing and endure daytime hours to avoid coming out of the coffin to her family. Her recently deceased favorite aunt is now her ghostly roommate. Jane is now the latest recipient of a gift basket from the Newly Undead Welcoming Committee, and her life-after-lifestyle is taking some getting used to. And thanks to the mysterious stranger she met while chugging neon-colored cocktails, she wakes up with a decidedly unladylike thirst for blood. ![]() On her way home, she’s mistaken for a deer, shot, and left for dead. When children’s librarian and self-professed nice girl Jane Jameson is fired by her beastly boss and handed twenty-five dollars in potato skins instead of a severance check, she goes on a bender that’s sure to become Half Moon Hollow legend. Maybe it was the Shenanigans gift certificate that put her over the edge. ![]() |